Agostino Mascardi

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1886. Excerpt: ... A RELATION OK THE Conspiracy OF JOHN LEWIS.
COUNT DE FIESGHL To his former arguments Verrina added, " But it is
your part (Sir) Vigorously to oppose and surmount all Obstacles,
which may make the Execution of your Project seem difficult:
Perform it (I beseech you) with a Courage and Boldness worthy of
your Birth. Let the Merit of your own Exploits purchase that Renown
which Heaven has decreed you: Let the World see that you owe your
Advancement only to your self: And though the hopes I entertain'd
of you are vastly large, let your Actions exceed them: In short, lo
not sheath your Sword till yoti have entail'd this Princely Dignity
on your Family, and thereby secur'd to your own Name an Immortal
Reputation: ' Fieschi, till now, never thought of acquiring the
Principality of Genona for himself, but for the French King; being
content to reduce the excessive Power of the Doria's into narrower
Limits, and to better his own Condition by calling in the French.
But being desirous of Glory, and naturally inclin'd to attempt
hazardous Undertakings, it proved no difficult matter for Verrina
to dissuade him from his Affection to the French, by proposing to
him these methods of setting up himself: Which having over-balanced
the weight of Calcagnos Reasons, hurried him on to the execution of
a Project, both Villainous and Dangerous in the highest degree.
However, he was much shocked at the apprehension of the
difficulties which wou'd attend his design without the assistance
of the French Forces: And Raphael Sacco made it his endeavour to
confirm him in these Perplexities, out of a partial Affection to
France, his Native Country; he advis'd him to accept of the
Conditions proposed to him in the King's Name by Cardinal Trivulce,
and to Act by that Model, till a silent and...